Merry Christmas! Joy to the world! The Lord is come: let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature sing.
...read moreOh Holy Night
How did our celebration of this day become so clean and crisp? Where are the smells and sweat and tears that were most certainly a part of Mary and Joseph’s journey?
...read moreEpiphany
Today, January 6, is known in the church calendar as Epiphany.
...read moreChristmas around the World
Being an “international” or “multi-cultural” family is a wonderful thing. For my family who have lived and grown up in six countries, various languages can be heard at home.
...read moreHad the Syrian-Greek tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes IV of the Hanukkah story succeeded in destroying Judaism and the Jewish people in 163 BCE, as he intended, there would be no Mary, no Joseph, and no baby Yeshua (Jesus) born in Bethlehem.
...read moreMemories of Christmas in Rwanda
My childhood memory of Christmas is filled with the sound of drums. As a seven-year-old boy growing up in Rwanda I was excited by the anticipation of festivities which they announced; I was also captivated by the coordination of the drummers and the sound of music resounding from the drums which my friends and I liked to imitate.
...read moreWhy I Love Advent
Advent is the exact opposite of what the Christmas season has become. Advent is all about waiting, expectancy and patience.
...read moreShalom is the Reason for the Season
What will it take for a society that is not enjoying “good health,” that is engulfed in evil, and experiencing the absence of God’s presence, to get to the place where it experiences shalom? What would shalom look like in the Congo, in Sudan, in Iraq, in Myanmar? Contrast the unjust and violent conditions in such societies with Zechariah’s prophesy, as he sings and prophesies to his baby son, John the Baptist, in Luke 1:68-79:
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